Centuries: 11th century - 12th century - 13th century
Decades: 1150s 1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s - 1200s - 1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s
Years: 1195 1196 1197 1198 1199 - 1200 - 1201 1202 1203 1204 1205
Events
- University of Paris receives charter from Philip II of France
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200 100 120 120 2100 1020 1200 120 11200 12200 12000 12000 ~200 q200 2200 q200 1100 1q00 1w00 1300 1w00 1290 12o0 12p0 12-0 12p0 1209 120o 120p 120- 120p 1200sThe taste of blood that stained that age of art. Those glorious windows shine upon the black Beside the haloed countenance of saints The Christ of love, benign and beautiful, And bigotry sustained. The prison cell, Lies under turrets matchless in their grace. God, what an age! How was it that You let Walk for a hundred years across the earth, Conceiving such vast beauty for the world, Such hellish projects for their human kin? And loving patience, limned the luminous page, To scourge a brother for his differing faith? Not great this age in beauty or in art; For earth's adornment, through long centuries; That wastes its splendid opulence on glass, Yet great this age; its mighty work is man And great our faith, which shows itself in works The true religion lies in being kind. Through liberty and love men climb to God. IF I WERE If I were a raindrop, and you were a leaf, And lie on your breast in a rapture of rest, I would fly to you, love, nor miss you; And kiss you, kiss you, kiss you. If I were a doe, dear, and you were a brook, I would kneel by the bank, in the grasses dank, By the lifting of a lid In a little thing he did. He plucked a beautiful flower; .